# Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform)

About the role: Third Chair monitors social and ad platforms for unlicensed commercial use of music on behalf of record labels and publishers. Our backend scans, ingests and processes tens of millions of posts every month and turns them into cases our customers act on. You'll work across the backend, with a particular focus on how data comes into the system. What you'll do: Design, build and own production backend services and APIs end-to-end. Improve our data ingestion layer: crawlers, third-party data providers, and the pipelines that load into our databases. Make data collection reliable and cost-efficient, including proxy strategy, rate limits, retries, and evaluating and selecting vendors. Work on high-throughput systems: queues, consumers, large datasets and observability. Ship product features with the team from API to production. What makes you a good fit: 4+ years of professional work experience building production backends in Go, Node.js, Python or similar. Strong experience with databases like PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and others, and AWS services such as ECS, RDS, Lambda and CloudWatch. Experience building data ingestion or crawling systems at scale, and comfortable dealin

- **Id**: 3807508
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/third-chair-senior-software-engineer-data-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: worldwide
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T13:50:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T13:47:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3055
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Content Detection, Social Networks

## Company

- **Id**: 2090154
- **Name**: Third Chair
- **Domain**: usethirdchair.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/usethirdchair>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Remote working hours

- **Label**: US time zones
- **Utc offset min**: \-8
- **Utc offset max**: \-5

## Salary

- **Min**: 40000
- **Max**: 100000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 100000

## Technologies

- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **ClickHouse** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T13:50:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:remote
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 100000
- **Is top pay**: no

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